You are the Human Resource Director for a large, long-established company. Your company plans to expand into China and intends to establish its first subsidiary in Beijing. The company intends to send a few managers to oversee the establishment of the new subsidiary. They will be responsible for overseeing the construction and opening of the new subsidiary, which will include hiring and training host country and third country national managers as well as approximately fifty host country national staff who are at middle management level and non-managerial employees.

1. Justify the use of parent country national, third country national and host country national in selecting managers for the international assignments. (15 marks)
2. Design the model for selection of the expatriates for the international assignments. (15 marks)